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Daycare
believers
by Oliver James, from The Guardian's "Comment is
Free" blog, http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk,
30-Jan-2007
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In fact, if you apply the
scientific evidence the absurdities of substitute care as a social policy
soon emerge. Under-threes need one-on-one from the same person or a close
relative every day. If ... substitute care was being done with mental health
in mind, you would create a national nanny network. In many cases, this
would consist of single mums leaving their babies or toddlers to go to the
home of another single mum or toddler to be paid to care for it. In some
cases, two single mums would simply be being paid to care for each other's
little children - completely barking*, on every level.
Barking
= British slang for "crazy" (Abbreviated from "barking mad")
Category = Economics
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Daycare believers
by Oliver James, from The Guardian's "Comment is
Free" blog, http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk,
30-Jan-2007 |
Having spent a week observing what is probably
the best nursery in the world in Copenhagen*, I am sure that daycare is a
lousy option.
*Denmark - A Scandinavian country noted for
its high quality day care.
Category =
Quality |
Study ties day care to behavior
problems
MSNBC.com
March 27, 2007 |
The more time that kids spent in day
care, the more likely their sixth-grade teachers were to report problem
behaviors such as getting in fights, being disobedient in school and arguing
a lot, according to the largest study of child care and development ever
conducted in the United States.
Category = Behavior |
Daycare: Breeding Ground for
Behavioral Problems
by Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist
www.crosswalk.com
March 28, 2007 |
A new study that followed children from
birth until age 12 has found that those children who spend large amounts of
time in child-care centers exhibit more behavior problems – such as
aggression and disobedience – than other children. The study is in the
latest issue of the journal "child development".
...Children cannot be micro-waved. Like gourmet meals, they must be lovingly
prepared for life with the right ingredients and the proper amount of time
invested in them. That’s just a fact and this study is one of many, along
with common sense, that proved it.
Category =
Behavior |
The Perennial Child Care Crisis
by Janice Shaw Crouse
www.cwfa.org
29-Aug-2007 |
The child care issue is a perennial one;
if it is August you can count on a press conference complete with a flurry
of articles citing a poll or two lamenting the cost of child care, praising
Head Start, and demanding increased federal funding for both. Inevitably,
there is a child care crisis just as Congress is debating budgets and a new
school year is just around the corner.
Category = Economics,
Politics |
The Perennial Child Care Crisis
by Janice Shaw Crouse
www.cwfa.org
29-Aug-2007 |
We do have to invest in the future by
finding ways to reach children who are at risk, but pouring money into
corruption-ridden programs like federally-funded day care and the Head Start
program is certainly counterproductive.
Category = Economics,
Politics |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 1-3
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
Much research has focused on the quality
of child care and has concluded,
unsurprisingly, that high-quality child care is better than low-quality
child care, but has not
shown that any quality of child care is superior to parental care.
Over time, child care has gone from something that families would use
sparingly
and only if necessary, to being an alleged human right. There is a loud
chorus calling
for increased public funding so that all children can attend ‘high-quality’
child care. The
major parties have largely acquiesced, to the point that it is estimated
that the (Australian) Federal
government now provides more than half of the cost of child care for most
families.
Category = Economics,
Politics, Quality |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 5
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
It is not the intention of this paper to reignite
the ‘child care wars’ of the 1990s...
The biggest mistake made in the reporting of research on child care is to
confound centre-based care for infants with part-time pre-school programmes
for 3 and 4 year olds.
They are very different forms of non-parental care and have very different
effects.
Category =
Behavior, Development, Quality |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 5
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
The studies most commonly cited as providing
evidence of the efficacy of formal child care are American. Perhaps the best
known of these is the High Scope Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal
study that has followed its subjects from early childhood into their
forties. The Perry Preschool Project is responsible for the oft-repeated
claim of a seven-fold return on investment in early childhood care
programmes (read, ‘centre-based child care with highly trained staff ’), and
dramatically-reduced risk of unemployment, criminality
and teenage pregnancy.
The results as stated are not false but they do not apply as broadly as
might be assumed from the way they are generally reported. The Perry
Preschool Project was a programme designed for children aged 3 and 4 years,
from severely disadvantaged families, and who had been identified as being
at risk of developmental delays. The project involved part-day pre-school
attendance and home visits by child care professionals.
This means that although the results are striking and significant, they do
not necessarily apply to children under 3 years, or to children with a wider
range of backgrounds and abilities. They also do not apply to long day-care.
This is a common misrepresentation. Other American studies regularly cited
to support the argument that child care is widely beneficial include the
Abecedarian Project, Project CARE, Head Start and Early Head Start. Each of
these studies involved children from low-income or disadvantaged families.
Each of these studies, moreover, involved a combination of centre-based
child care and home visits with, in some cases, health and
parenting services. Again, the results achieved cannot be expected to be
replicated with the general population.
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Behavior, Development, Quality |
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